What the fuck are they looking to do, arrest kids who say "meow" in school?
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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I wonder how much of this is borne out of the hysteria over kids supposedly using litter boxes.
I had some gomer on the Denver Post forums that kept insisting it was not only a thing, but an epidemic. I kept asking him for the supposed evidence of this claim, all he could say was that he "talks to lots and lots of parents and teachers" and "the media won't report on it".
I had some gomer on the Denver Post forums that kept insisting it was not only a thing, but an epidemic.
ask him where video footage of it happening is, everyone in school has a phone, everyone in school has a camera, if there ARE litterboxes in bathrooms, there WILL be footage of it, and LOTS of it.
Sadly, DP killed off their forums. DP maybe 20 years ago had a pretty vibrant online comment section. They switched the platforms a few times and the paper itself was getting hollowed out like so many others [1]. I think most corporations don't really want to be hearing from anyone, least of all their own customers. Seems many, many outlets have closed their comment sections. I'm sure more than a few qons cheered at that fact, because they were regularly made to look QUITE stupid on such forums, if the moderation was even the least bit fair.
Turns out there was at least one magat moderator on there, and you could almost tell when they were on-duty - making a magat commenter look too stupid resulted in your post getting deleted. Oddly, many of the "free speech absolutists" would get a tingle up their leg when that happened, which is so weird because they were crying about how they were being "censored" and "shadow-banned" on other platforms, as well as DP, LOL.
In any case, once it was announced that DP was shutting them down, the usual suspects were positively giddy about it. I know more than a few of the extremists were trying to get them shut down via various means (some of them bragged about this and whether they were lying about it or were not, you get some real insight into the types we are dealing with here). This, from the "free speech absolutists", naturally.
[1] The idiots on the right think it's because papers were "too liberal", lol, and either completely ignorant of, or lying about, how the advertisement model was nuked by things like Craig's list and so on.
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Wow.
I remember learning about dinosaurs as an elementary schooler after Jurassic Park came out, and spending a few months on the playground pretending to be a velociraptor (well technically they're closer to deinonychous but w/e) ... apparently that is now banned, because otherwise I might have become a scaly, for life?
Wonderful.
apparently that is now banned, because otherwise I might have become a scaly, for life?
I'm not seeing a denial...
Closest I ever got to being a scaly was... enjoying those old dinosaur comics from almost two decades ago, where the gimmick was it was the exact same 4 panels every time, buy with different dialogue?
But uh no, I do not have a ... scale suit? Scale-sona? I don't even know if thats the right terminology.
I just had a few friends who were DeviantArtists decades ago, and am vaguely aware via osmosis that there is a subset of furries with dino personas.
are you a furry though? Conveniently avoided that one.
And technically, i think a scalie would still count as a fursuit/fursona, it's just a weird offshoot of furry to refer to people who like scaled creatures instead, though i guess nothing stops you from calling it a scalesona/scalesuit, lol
jfc, no I am not a furry.
I don't even have programmer socks.
I've cosplayed a few times at conventions... Dr McNinja, Dr Who, Alan Wake, ... think I was L from Death Note once...
...I once made my own Drive jacket for a halloween party.
Taught myself how to sew, found a pattern, made the jacket within the roughly 2 months between when the movie came out and the next halloween. I could only find one place on the entire internet selling the jacket, but they were basically either high quality repros or actual left over warddrobe from the movie, going for over a thousand bucks, wouldn't ship until after halloween.
I had to just use a felt cut out of the scorpion on the back, as ... yeah, didn't have enough time or skill to embroider it. It wasn't reversible like the one in the movie was, but I did get the brown as the inside color/material, just with all the stitching exposed willy nilly.
I've known a few furries, across the internet, but no I've never had a fursona or fursuit or any of that, never used a furry ingame avatar, nope.
... I guess maybe I had an alt FFXIV character that was one of the ...... Miqote? I got bored and stopped playing after about 6 months, I don't think I got that character beyond level 10.
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